Turkey has charged dozens of prominent figures with plotting a coup against the moderate Islamic government.

Prosecutor Aykut Gengiz Engin says 86 have been charged with either forming or membership of a terrorist organization, or of inciting public unrest with the aim of toppling the Islamic government.

Engin, announcing details of a long-awaited indictment released Monday, did not name the suspects charged, but said they included leading figures from the army, business and the secular press.

At least one former general and opposition leader were charged.

The suspects were detained as part of an investigation into an alleged hardline secularist and nationalist group. Police found a cache of hand grenades at the house of an army officer in Istanbul last year.